On the occasion of the 80th birthday of H.E. Kasit Piromya, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand and CPG Senior Research Fellow, on December 15, 2024, and responding to recent requests, we are pleased to share a revised version of CPG Director Henning Glaser’s opening address delivered in honor of His Excellency. This address was given at the conference “Quo Vadis Thailand: Steering Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in Times of Uncertainty,” co-hosted with the Asian Governance Foundation (AGF) and the Thailand Office of the Hanns Seidel Foundation on November 7, 2024, at the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel, Bangkok.

The full text is available here.